From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-20T06:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS for Ruby Dev/Best OS for Ruby Hosting

On 11/19/05, Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@gmail.com> wrote:

 > I prefer source-based OSs, but Gentoo just breaks too often for it
to be worth
> it. Also, Gentoo users are on the whole jerkyer and less helpful than
> normal people.

Oh... That's not biased!  Says one of those Gentoo jerks. ;_

Seriously though, I have had no trouble whatsoever running and hosting
RoR stuff on Gentoo. I've been using Gentoo for about 4 years and have
yet to have an issue.

From my experience, between windows 2000 / xp / gentoo / debian /
ubuntu / mac os X.3 / X.4 / FreeBSD, i've had very little problems
with any of them, and I frequent most of them each week.

Of the above, if I had to pick a couple, I'd pick gentoo / debian /
and freebsd, with gentoo being my number one pick, but any of the
above work fairly well for development.

For hosting, I'd say a source based *nix is a the way to go.  Gentoo
or otherwise, it helps with performance and tweaking.

I agree with someone who said anywhere vim and a ruby interpreter
resides is an ideal development environment.  Windows is even (almost)
tolerable via MSys and MinGW (if you have no other options).